Kat grew up in the Inland Empire and her first tattoo was at the age of 14, an old english "J" on her ankle, a moment of a love gone by. Shortly thereafter, realizing her natural ability, in early 1996 her friends asked her to pick up the machine and get to work on them (her first effort was a misfits skull with a homemade rig), the tattooing wasn't easy but she knew it felt right and she wanted to persue it. In 1998, she began working in her first professional shop, Sin City Tattoo, a local place in her neighborhood. A year and a half later, she moved on to Blue Bird Tattoo in Pasadena for a year. After this she moved onto Red Hot Tattoo in Arcadia. A great period of growth came when she began to work at Inflictions, a shop in West Covina, CA. She eventually moved down to True Tattoo which gave her a chance to work with Clay Decker and Chris Garver. This was an honor and a great opportunity and anyone who had known Kat over the course of her career to that point knew that not only did she deserve the chance but was sincere and talented enough to add to the the already high standards of the shop. This gave her the chance to live and work in Hollywood, the heart of the city that she loves, Los Angeles.
Kat grew up in the Inland Empire and her first tattoo was at the age of 14, an old english "J" on her ankle, a moment of a love gone by. Shortly thereafter, realizing her natural ability, in early 1996 her friends asked her to pick up the machine and get to work on them (her first effort was a misfits skull with a homemade rig), the tattooing wasn't easy but she knew it felt right and she wanted to persue it. In 1998, she began working in her first professional shop, Sin City Tattoo, a local place in her neighborhood. A year and a half later, she moved on to Blue Bird Tattoo in Pasadena for a year. After this she moved onto Red Hot Tattoo in Arcadia. A great period of growth came when she began to work at Inflictions, a shop in West Covina, CA. She eventually moved down to True Tattoo which gave her a chance to work with Clay Decker and Chris Garver. This was an honor and a great opportunity and anyone who had known Kat over the course of her career to that point knew that not only did she deserve the chance but was sincere and talented enough to add to the the already high standards of the shop. This gave her the chance to live and work in Hollywood, the heart of the city that she loves, Los Angeles.